Upstream face of Hoover Dam, during construction

Metadata

Title

Upstream face of Hoover Dam, during construction

Digital Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries

Original Date

1934-09-27

Description

View of Hoover Dam construction from the Arizona side of the canyon. The upstream face of the dam is visible. The intake towers are nearing completion. Temporary bridges, scaffolding, a train trestle, and trams traveling across the canyon on a cableway can be seen.

This file is derived from a high-resolution (300 dpi, 24-bit) uncompressed TIFF image that was scanned from the original using a HP Scanjet 4670 scanner with HP Scanning 2.3.1 scanning software, default color configuration. The TIFF files were converted into the JPEG2000 format.

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